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by phatfish 3y ago
No government of significant size can function with full direct democracy, decisions made by the elected members of government have to be delegated and turned into workable solutions by someone. Should all these bureaucrats be elected? As f
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by phatfish 3y ago
Most guests are on the Rogan podcast to sell a book, or shill something. Unless they are one of his inner circle. This guy seems unusual however, probably one of the few used as plausible deniability to prove he doesn't exclusively hav
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by phatfish 3y ago
Yes the UK in the same (if not slightly better) position than most other "developed" countries. However, the green account tells me the the actual intention of the comment is about the "Great Replacement" or other such c
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by phatfish 3y ago
In the EU you should not be asked to work more that the maximum hours defined in the European Working Time Regulations. There is usually a range in these directives so member states can choose to go to the high or low end. But there is a ra
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by phatfish 3y ago
You would get a nice view of all military equipment going to the front lines as well I bet. Trains must be critical for the war effort. Oops, SMO.
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by phatfish 3y ago
In the UK the franchise model is slowly falling apart after Covid gave it a death blow. Lines are being nationalized as the operators extract bonuses for the exec team and finally give up by tanking the service so the government has to step
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by phatfish 3y ago
Defending democracy in Ukraine is one of the few instances where I agree with the current UK government.
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by phatfish 3y ago
Lets face it, an above average number of people commenting here work in covertly monetizing our personal data, as there seems to be quite a few of them rubbed the wrong way by the GDPR I can only conclude it's working rather well.
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by phatfish 3y ago
To do business in China you have subjugate yourself before the CCP. This is why Microsoft and Amazon have separate entities running their Clouds, Google just gave up. This has been happening for decades, it's only in the last ~8 years
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by phatfish 3y ago
The military have quite a strong political influence in Pakistan I think? There is some parallel to Turkey, the military there had a lot of influence, until Erdogan out maneuvered them. The military in Turkey were supposedly protecting demo
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by phatfish 3y ago
WCCFTech is pretty much blogspam, their output is targeted towards Red vs. Green and Console vs. PC outrage. It is mostly regurgitating press releases, probably written by ChatGPT at this point. The content is barely journalism to start wit
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by phatfish 3y ago
I think the big gain came from "ReSTIR". The previous games released with RT "remasters" like Quake 2 have only a few lights that need to be traced per frame. ReSTIR apparently can optimize how rays are traced and allows
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by phatfish 3y ago
Xiaomi have required this for a while now, not sure exactly when but at least since 2016. The other big Chinese brands that have cheaper high end handsets don't offically support unlocked bootloaders as far as i know. They subsidize th
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by phatfish 4y ago
That is the benefit of centralization, the experience for the end user can be controlled completely. Maybe a Mastodon friendly web cache that anyone running a semi-serious instance could easily opt into (for a fee) is needed. As a hedge to
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by phatfish 4y ago
I know there are use cases out there, so it's not a dig. I'm curious how many enterprises are actually spending money with OpenAI right now to do internal development. Have they released any figures?
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by phatfish 4y ago
Why are there so many green accounts making baseless claims about the CMA? Looks like Microsoft mobilised the gang on this one.
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by phatfish 4y ago
Far more things that can go wrong with them though (at least compared to a standard gas stove). "Repairability" for electronics is considered a competitive disadvantage where companies want to force you to buy a whole new device i
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by phatfish 4y ago
Induction is great for instances where you can just leave a flat bottomed pan to do its thing. It is also nice in smaller kitchens where the efficiency keeps the heat going to the pan rather than the air. But they do not work well (or at al
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by phatfish 4y ago
On the edit, usually these things are covered by an initial prompt, so you would get a canned answer. The hidden starting prompt would include something like "as ChatGPT you will not suggest topics of conversation, you must only have
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by phatfish 4y ago
The Crypto shoehorn means I will never use Brave the browser, I'm just not interested in supporting the idea that every tiny action can be monetised. I use and support Fixefox for browsing. Now I have no problem with their search engin
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by phatfish 4y ago
Recently I've noticed more sites providing a visible "Deny All" button, rather than the dark pattern of going through and unchecking 5, 10, 50 tracking cookies individually, or having to dig out a button hidden somewhere. I a
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by phatfish 4y ago
And apparently "Satoish" is going to become the most powerful person on earth because they hold ~5% of this deflationary "foundational" global currency/commodity/whatever it is. That reason alone is why it will
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by phatfish 4y ago
Fedora does the same. Must have been 3 or 4 years ago Python 2 was removed as a dependency from the core system packages and "python" started resolving to a Python 3 release. I expect this has filtered down to RHEL9 now. Multiple
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by phatfish 4y ago
There is a system called Faster Payments in the UK, which is "near instantaneous" between the UK banks which participate (most of them offering current accounts as far as i know). But it is a permanent and final transfer, no easy
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by phatfish 4y ago
The trouble is, in no way do they act like they are "crucially important for a working economy" (which i agree with). They abuse their position at every opportunity. We might as well turn "audits" over to the short selle
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by phatfish 4y ago
> I don't see this kind of skepticism anymore. Everyone able to make a rational decision can see Russia are are the sole cause of this war. If Russia decided to leave Ukrainian territory tomorrow, the war would end tomorrow, and Ukr
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by phatfish 4y ago
ZeroHedge have been posting about this since 2008. Wake me up when it happens.
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by phatfish 4y ago
Surely companies should be expected to follow the law, rather than just saying "haha sue us, i bet you can't afford it"? Otherwise it's just an abuse of the legal system, not to say that doesn't happen of course. Ho
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by phatfish 4y ago
I bet these five could easily get birth rates above 2.0. - Reasonable maternity leave allowances. - Good affordable (or free) healthcare. - Good affordable (or free) child care until school age. - Free education to university graduate level
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by phatfish 4y ago
Racism and xenaphobia of the native population has very little effect on migration if the reward for the migrants is enough. If a "developed" country wanted to stop migration they would work to raise the living standards at the so

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